""If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will,
who am I to judge?" Pope Francis told reporters. "They shouldn't be
marginalized...they're our brothers"

Tuesday on "CBS This Morning," Cardinal Timothy Dolan,
Archbishop of New York, described the pontiff as "as calm and
personable as could be" when he held court for "an hour and 21
minutes...on the plane."

Pope Francis articulated his views "in a beautifully tender
way...that while certain acts may be wrong...we will always love and
respect the person and treat the person with dignity," Dolan said.

Dolan emphasized that the pope's comments do not signal a change in church doctrine or Catholic ideology.

Dolan
explained: "Pope Francis would be the first to say, 'My job isn't to
change church teaching. My job is to present it as clearly as possible."

However,
"it could be a change in tone or emphasis," Dolan said, explaining that
thus far, the new papal leader has struck a "gentle, merciful,
understanding, compassionate, tone. That may be something that people
find new and refreshing."

"We've got...two points of church teaching," Dolan said Tuesday. "One
would be the immorality, in God's view, of any sexual expression
outside of a man and woman in lifelong marriage...the other point of
church teaching is that a persona's identity, respect, the dignity and
love that he or she deserves does not depend on anything -- sexual
orientation, how much money we've got, if we've got a green card...does
not depend on anything other than the fact that we're a child of God,
made in his image."

Turning to political events in his home state, Dolan addressed the ongoing sexting scandal surrounding New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner.
The cardinal admitted he has been watching closely as the controversy
unfolds but said, "I ought to take a page from Pope Francis and say...I
don't want to judge anybody."